Announcing Confluence 10.2 as the next Long Term Support release

[Rohit Tiwari]

Hi Data Center Community,

We’re excited to share that Confluence Data Center 10.2 will be our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, planned to be available in Q4 2025.

If you manage complex systems that require infrequent upgrades with careful planning, we recommend upgrading to Confluence 10.2 when it becomes available. In the lead-up to the final release of Confluence 10.2, we’ll also make Early Access Program (EAP) releases available to give you a snapshot of our work-in-progress and an opportunity to try out new features early. Discover more about Confluence development releases here.

What you can expect

Confluence 10.2 will be the first LTS release on the Confluence 10 platform, packed with benefits to strengthen security for growing enterprises. You’ll also find powerful features that accelerate team productivity, and improvements to the admin experience.

Take a look at a selection of new features that will be available when you upgrade from Confluence 9.2 LTS to Confluence 10.2 LTS.

Ask Rovo anything - unlock cloud value within Confluence Data Center

Tap into Rovo’s AI capabilities through the newly released Confluence Data Center connector. Centralise knowledge across platforms and enhance team productivity through Rovo’s AI-driven features, including Search, Chat, and Agents. This integration supports your existing infrastructure while providing a pathway to unlock the potential of cloud-based AI capabilities, and facilitating a smoother transition to the Cloud when you're ready. This feature is available for both LTS versions: Confluence 9.2.6 LTS and Confluence 9.4.

Delightful end-user and admin experience improvements

Your team will benefit from product experience enhancements that will help them work seamlessly and productively, such as:

• Improved performance when adding Jira issue dates in Team Calendars
• Create blog posts from templates similar to Confluence Cloud
• Aligned editor shortcuts with Confluence Cloud
• Zoom in on your roadmaps with the new ‘Days’ timeline option
• New REST APIs to automate, script, and scale tasks
• Adjust the default time zone for all users in the General Configuration screen
• Save time and space with more control over data pipeline exports
• Application tunnels app is now bundled with Confluence Data Center

Strengthened security

Confluence 10.2 will include updates and improvements to strengthen the overall security of the platform, and better protect your organization, with benefits such as:

• Protect your system through encryption key rotation
• Secure app installations with app signature check
• OAuth 2.0 support for outgoing mail

Powerful productivity and sustainable scalability

To help achieve optimal performance for your team and organization, new features include:

• Exact search is now enabled by default for OpenSearch
• Precise control to rebuild your site’s search index
• Faster space deletion is a default option now

Learn more about the LTS

The Confluence 10.2 LTS will include every feature shipped in the 9.2 LTS through to the 10.2 LTS release. To explore all updates since your last upgrade, check out the Confluence upgrade matrix. The complete list of bug fixes and security improvements coming with this LTS release will be available in the release notes once shipped.

If you’d like to see what else is coming to Data Center, visit the Data Center roadmap.

If you have any questions or feedback you’d like to share, reach out to us by leaving a comment under this post.

Thanks for being part of our community!

Confluence Data Center Team